Week 13 preview: Eagles-Ravens takes center stage as the final third of the regular season begins
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🗓️ 29 November 2024
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Summary
If the first third of the season is about deciphering fact from fiction, and the middle third is about learning who teams really are, the final third is about the playoff push. The final third of the season begins in Week 13, and we've got five great games that are going to help us determine what the early stages of that playoff push look like. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen preview those games on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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- Chargers-Falcons preview
- Steelers-Bengals preview
- Cardinals-Vikings preview
- Eagles-Ravens preview
- 49ers-Bills preview
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime Video. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Robert Mays. The week 13 slate is upon us. A little bit of a different approach with me and Derek |
| 0:14.8 | class in this week. You know, typically we have a game of the week, a bunch of categories that we hit |
| 0:18.4 | because of the holiday, because we recorded this one |
| 0:21.3 | day earlier, all we did was picked five games, one thing we're looking for on both sides of the |
| 0:25.8 | ball. |
| 0:26.4 | Falcons Chargers, Steelers, Bengals, Cardinals, Vikings, Eagles, Ravens, and Niners Bills. |
| 0:31.6 | So that's what you got today, a little bit of a different approach because of Thanksgiving. |
| 0:35.7 | Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving. |
| 0:37.8 | Let's get to the Week 13 preview with Derek. |
| 0:45.4 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:46.9 | Thanksgiving week, Week 13 preview. |
| 0:50.1 | A little bit different today. |
| 0:51.5 | Derek, we talked about this a little bit, |
| 0:52.8 | alluded to this a little bit earlier |
| 0:53.9 | when I did the midweek show. Do this week 13 preview just slightly differently because we're recording it a day early. Obviously, we have Thanksgiving on Thursday. We're doing five games this week, and we're just going to talk about one thing on each side of the ball that we're watching in these five headline games in week 13. So if you're listening to this on Friday, |
| 1:11.6 | we are not recapping any of the Thanksgiving games, we're taking Thanksgiving off, but we're |
| 1:15.7 | going to dig into five fairly notable games from this week's slate and that have some fairly |
| 1:20.7 | important impact potentially on the playoff race. These games of the week are presented by BetMGM, |
| 1:25.9 | and we are just going to go in chronological order here. |
| 1:28.2 | Let's start with the Chargers and the Falcons. The Chargers are minus one and a half in this game. Let's get this kicked off when the Chargers have the ball. What are you watching for when Justin Herbert and his guys are on offense in this game? I mean, first of all, this Falcons defense is not very good. so I think we have a pretty good chance, no matter how it gets done for a pretty good Justin Herbert game. |
| 1:28.2 | Uh, I mean, first of all, this Falcons defense is not very good. So I think we have a pretty good chance, no matter how it gets done for a pretty good Justin Herbert game. But to me, when I watch this Chargers offense, the biggest, like they've obviously been better, I think for large stretches of this season. I think we might have thought with some of the pieces that they had, especially a pass catcher. But the biggest issue that they've had for a lot of the years, they just can't pass |
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